NBTA Evaluates the “State of the U.S. Business Travel Union”
Report Card Grades Congress, the Administration on Key Business Travel Issues
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) published its "Business Travel Government Affairs Report Card" today. As the nation awaits President Bush’s State of the Union address, the NBTA report card looks at the state of the most important business travel issues facing the U.S. government.
The overall grade earned by the performance of Congress and the Administration in 2007 is a C+. NBTA graded the progress made in 2007 on the following issues and made recommendations for 2008 on each:
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ISSUE |
GRADE |
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Federal Aviation Administration Funding |
D |
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Airline Performance and Air Traffic Congestion |
C |
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Domestic U.S. Registered Traveler |
C |
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International Registered Traveler |
B- |
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Traveler Taxes |
B- |
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Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) |
B+ |
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Model Ports of Entry Program |
B |
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Visa Processing and the Visa Waiver Program |
B+ |
To learn more about what was or was not accomplished in each of the areas listed above, and to read NBTA’s recommendations for how the U.S. Congress and the Administration can improve business travel, please read the full report.
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) is the world’s premier business travel organization. U.S.-based NBTA and its regional subsidiaries – NBTA Asia Pacific, NBTA Canada and NBTA Mexico – serve more than 3,000 members in 30 nations around the globe. NBTA has 42 U.S. Chapters with more than 5,000 members. NBTA members are corporate and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers, who collectively manage and direct more than US$170 billion of global business travel expenditures annually. The association provides industry-leading networking, education & professional development, research, news & information, and advocacy. For more information, visit www.nbta.org.
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